Creative Writing / Literary Theory

A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Robin Hemley, Long Island University, Brooklyn, USA & Xu Xi, Vermont College of Fine Arts, USA A craft guide and anthology, this is the first creative writing book to find inspiration and guidance in the literary traditions of Asia. Including exemplary stories by writers from Japan, China, India, Singapore and beyond as well as those from Asian diasporas in Europe and America, this book offers an exciting take on the traditional how-to writing guide by drawing from a rich new trove of short stories beyond the western canon which readers may never have encountered before. Written by two internationally successful writers and teachers, each chapter contains complete short stories and writing exercises for practice and inspiration.

UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 280 pages PB 9781350076549 • £27.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781350076556 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350076563 • £25.19 / $33.86 ePdf 9781350076570 • £25.19 / $33.86 Series: Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies • Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Politics of Realism

Thomas Docherty, University of Warwick, UK Exploring the controversial history of an aesthetic – Realism – this book dissects the corruptions of the aesthetic under the force of the politics of identity in the contemporary sphere. Doherty examines how Realism engages with capital, social decorum, the law, politicisation and modern science as a determining factor concerning truth. The author explores art, film and literary works from French, English, Italian and Russian writers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, including work by Flaubert, Baudelaire, Zola, Henry James, Dickens and Orwell. He proposes a new philosophical conception of the politics of Realism in an age when politics is increasingly driven by fantasists.

UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 304 pages • 5 bw illus HB 9781350228535 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350228559 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781350228542 • £81.00 / $106.83 Bloomsbury Academic

Intersex Studies and the Health and Medical Humanities

Sex and Medicine

Edited by Katelyn Dykstra, University of Manitoba, Canada & Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada Bringing together scholars and activists from diverse disciplines, this book examines the ongoing medicalization of bodies designated intersex through the lenses of the medical and health humanities. Using vital humanities-based approaches that focus on how we can utilize language, storytelling, and history to change how intersex individuals are diagnosed and treated, this book shows how essential it is to take advantage of the wealth of knowledge offered by both medicine and the humanities when working with intersex people.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 232 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350217478 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350217492 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350217485 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic Ecocritical Pedagogy and Poetics

Isabel Galleymore, University of Birmingham, UK Environmental and nature writing is an increasingly popular topic in the creative writing classroom. A comprehensive and accessible study of teaching practice in this field, this book critically reflects on how students are taught to write about the natural world. Drawing on interviews with teachers and students, it brings insights from the classroom into conversation with close readings of contemporary environmental poetry informed by the latest developments in ecoriticism. From this conversation, the author provides a set of pedagogical exercises to expand the scope of nature writing education and help student writers engage more deeply with their environments.

UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 216 pages PB 9781350243279 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350068414 ePub 9781350068438 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350068421 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

The Creature

In Power and Pain

Prasanta Chakravarty, University of Delhi, India Sifting through the writings of Giambattista Vico, Niccolò Machiavelli, Gabriel Tarde, Miguel de Unamuno, Jibanananda Das, Lev Shestov, Raymond Geuss, Jean Starobinski, Ernst Bloch, Simone Weil, Simon Critchley, Sarah Kane and others, it explores the creaturely predicament and its possibilities of freedom. It explores the fundamental questions for the creaturely condition: the question of mimicry, the relationship between taking initiative and being hounded, the bridge between senses and destitution, and the vehemence of radical contingency. It posits the question of skepticism, fideism and their connection to resilience and generosity in creatures; at decreation and grapples with questions of attention, anonymity and abdication.

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 320 pages HB 9789354351242 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354351327 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9789354352911 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Literature and Religious Experience

Edited by Matthew J. Smith & Caleb D. Spencer This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by turning to ‘experience’ as a bridge between theory and practice. Intuitively structured, each chapter is centred on a keyword which is explored across historical periods and genres, and related to broad literary contexts. Contributors including Terry Eagleton and Julia Reinhard Lupton examine the distinct deliverances of experience through writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Conrad, Beecher Stowe and Melville.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 288 pages HB 9781350193918 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350193932 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350193925 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic